Applications of Satellite Remote Sensing of Nighttime Light Observations: Advances, Challenges, and Perspectives

Nighttime light observations from remote sensing provide us with a timely and spatially explicit measure of human activities, and therefore enable a host of applications such as tracking urbanization and socioeconomic dynamics, evaluating armed conflicts and disasters, investigating fisheries, asses...

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Main Authors: Min Zhao, Yuyu Zhou, Xuecao Li, Wenting Cao, Chunyang He, Bailang Yu, Xi Li, Christopher D. Elvidge, Weiming Cheng, Chenghu Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-08-01
Series:Remote Sensing
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/17/1971